Fraud Examination
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781305079144
Author: W. Steve Albrecht, Chad O. Albrecht, Conan C. Albrecht, Mark F. Zimbelman
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 1, Problem 4TF
Manufacturing companies with a profit margin of 10 percent must usually generate about 10 times as much revenue as the dollar amount of the fraud in order to restore net income to its pre-fraud level.
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Fraud Examination
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